Overnight, WUWT hit a new milestone with 10 million page views.
As of this writing, according to the WordPress internal counter shown in the ride sidebar, I’m at 10,016,144 page views.
This is since September of 2007. I’m on track this month to hit 1.4 million page views, which will be another new record if it happens.
Using an external free service, Sitemeter, it shows 9,104,257 but I also started it a bit later. Total unique visits according to sitemeter have been 6,141,642.
Not too shabby. A million here, a million there, and pretty soon it adds up to real traffic. Recently it was pointed out to me that my traffic now exceeds the host newspaper which gave rise to my blog, the Chico Enterprise Record, on which I started my first blog in November 2006 on their www.norcalblogs.com website.
I owe a debt of thanks to the ChicoER, my guest contributors, volunteer moderators, and of course you, the readers. – Anthony
Well done WUWT but what a communications disaster the Heartland conference was. I am sure the papers were groundbreaking unlike the post conference paers which are either unobtainable or the sound is so corrupted it is unintelligible. Need to be more selective in future as this sort of amateurism makes our cause a laughing stock.
Okay, here’s another hit, or page view, if you prefer. Although let’s be honest, I return several times a day so we’re over-counting. When the TUV (aka total unique visits) hits 10M I’ll celebrate and buy you a bottle of wine. But, yes, great job, great site, and a lot of work. Cheers!
Now, to Aron (11:51:38) Regarding submitting comments. I do mine in MS-Word and then spell-check and read there. Then do a copy and paste. Works fine.
O/T but I just made a comment on this site
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article5904344.ece?Submitted=true
Weather Eye: Australia is again in the disaster firing line
by Paul Simons
He commented on Arctic sea ice being “far below average” – I was only allowed 300 words and this is what I squeezed in:
“Arctic ice doesn’t seem to be “far below average” but well within a normal range. Every year can’t be above average and most of the averages are not current nor accurate. A more interesting story is the Catlin Arctic Survey now underway – traveled 30 km in 14 days. The arctic is still arctic.”
Maybe a few of the rest of you would like to have a go at 300 words there.
The very high number of visits to the site is the most clear proof possible of the veracity of the information presented, the intelligence level of the commentary, and the objectivity of the analysis.
We all know that popularity equals quality and truth. Consider religion as an example. The reason why Christianity is by far the most popular religion in the world is because it is based on the exquisite logic of the Bible, which is obviously the word of God – it can’t get any better than that.
Popularity also equates individuals with integrity and vision. The reason GW Bush was elected is clearly because his was a visionary of superior intellect and understanding, and the people understood this.
The correlation between popularity and quality can, at times, break down. This tends to happen when the people are under stress and their fears rob them of their rational thinking. Demagogues can sometimes take advantage of this, as was demonstrated in November: The crisis caused people to overlook the obviously far superior intellectual qualities of the Republican ticket, with consequences which we are only now beginning to uncover.
Carsten Arnholm, Norway (12:19:28) :
Tom (11:36:17) :
Psst. I think it should be 10 to the 6th exponent or 1 to the 7th.
Psst. Think again 🙂
10^6 = 1 million.
1^7 = 1 (one)
Congratulations and many thanks again Anthony for your site. I have recently failed to pay my subscription to a printed science magazine as I get 10^6 times as much quality info here.
Yeah Yeah, I don’t know what I was smoking but Zeros fool me all the time. But hey, if Jim Hansen can be a climatologist then I can be a mathamatician.
Sorry all!
Not too shabby.
Congrats.
A little honesty and integrity in article presentations, a bit of civility in moderating comments and people start to notice. Keep up the fine work.
Congratulations!!
More and more people, including me, are visiting your site every day to get accurate information on our global climate.
Thank you for all you do.
Very best wishes,
Mike
Mega-kudos, Anthony! May your hard work always be rewarded.
10 million views is quite impressive! And, more than 6 million unique viewers is awesome.
Perhaps the pen is mightier than the sword. Or in this case, the keypad.
Roger Sowell
Marina del Rey, California
Thank you for having the courage of your convictions. While I still claim to be officially “agnostic” on AGW, your daily posting have me leaning onto your side of the fence. The next couple of years should be quite telling. Thank you again for the wisdom to question the conventional.
Once again, thank you Mr Watts and Crew!
10 million hits . . . . and yet so well deserved. Would that Paris Hilton could say as much. . . . . 🙂 Very well deserved congratulation to you, Mr. Watts.
“the_Butcher (11:53:35) : Your blog is addictive…”
I’d say so too. Sometimes i’m here when i should be studying… or sleeping even 😉
I always think to myself, “I’ll just go there for 20 minutes.” Two hours later I pull myself away 🙁
Some time ago, like so many others, I began to believe the alarming articles I read in the press. The levels of apparent hysteria in the news stories began to grow and likewise so did my concern about the validity of these claims.
I began to search for something better, something which would withstand intellectual enquiry and which did not concern itself with hysteria, politics and a suspected but unseen agenda.
I searched the net and found a number of places which gave facts and figures on which I could base my developing personal beliefs. Among those places I discovered this site. I visit regularly now and I leave having been informed, challenged and sometimes amused.
Anthony, you and your colleagues are to be congratulated on running such a fine site, it is a beacon of sanity in the vastness of cyberspace.
I guess I have a couple of thing to say here. First, congratulations and thanks for all your hard work!
Second, I figure I’m responsible for at least 3850 hits, so I’m just as potent as CO2.
Third, I have been busy lately and have a lot of reading to catch up on. Amazing how much can change on this site in just a few days.
10 million hits means you are reaching a good representative portion of the net. Your site is a model for government to get back in touch with it’s constituents, amongst a dozen other things.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you got a knock on your door to interview for a newly invented cabinet position.
Tremendous potential.
Congratulations. This site is the best on climate and weather. Even if you are not especially interested by climate, you get addicted very quickly by reading your articles. Keep up the good work! Internet is the only free media and we need sites like this.
Funny, Domingo. But you do know that you’re arguing with success, a big no-no. Karma is sure to bite you for it.
Maybe you should turn your sarcasm on the really pathetic Realclimate and its clones. Even with George Soros backing them, they’ve been left in the dust. [But they click on WUWT daily in order to keep up with the “Best Science” site’s climate discussion. Then they go back and tell each other how right they are and how wrong the ten million of us here are.]
The big difference between the heavily subsidized pro-AGW sites and WUWT is that the Best Science site allows all points of view — while RC and others routinely censor posts that challenge their beliefs. That’s not science, that’s paid advocacy for a predetermined conclusion. Who wants to click for propaganda?
Congrats Anthony, you’ve built the very best climate site in the blogosphere. You deserve all the success you’re acheiving.
And welcome aboard, Domingo. I’m sure you’ll learn plenty of value here if you stick around and keep an open mind.
Thank You Anthony for your and your groups fine work.
“REPLY: No, not until I move WUWT off to a fixed server. Currently I’m hosting on wordpress.com free service which does not allow for a preview function. – Anthony”
I can assume this is also why you don’t have advertising on the site?
Now, to Aron (11:51:38) Regarding submitting comments. I do mine in MS-Word and then spell-check and read there. Then do a copy and paste. Works fine.
Now that is dedication! 🙂
Has that 10 million been peer reviewed? 🙂
Well done Anthony for a great site
Tonyb
Great achievement. I’m absorbed daily, even when I don’t understand a word being written by such knowledgeable and educated people. As an amateur astronomer of long standing, searching for a reason for the lack of sunspots drew me here. I’ve learned much. Keep up trying to push the actual science of climate variation.
Congratulations!! Thank you for this open-minded and informative site.
According to http://www.sitemeter.com, there was about 690 thousand visits on this website last month, and about 775 thousand in January, 2009. Last year we’ve seen a steady growth in the number of visits, about 10 percent per month.
If the visit count surpasses 1.5 million in March, we will be able to replicate the Mann Hockey Stick completely.
Imagine a warming trend like this, with such great slope values anyone could easily start a new way of fearmongering. I think you should introduce the calculation method used by this sitemeter to James Hansen and his Crew … in order to apply it in GISTEMP code for ‘better results’.
Best regards from Hungary,
Adam Soereg
Another posting, another 10^x hits. The quality generates quantity.
John F. Hultquist (13:15:18) — I watch for new articles with RSS, so I’m balancing your repetition.
Anthony
As temperatures fail to cooperate it looks like acidification of the Oceans will be promoted as the next casualty of man made co2 if the Copenhagen conference is anything to go by.
Are you intending to do a thread on this subject looking at the latest findings?
Thanks
Tonyb
Congratulations, Anthony, for a consistently fine and informative blog. I try to check in at least once a day and am never disappointed. Well done.